A Message to the Motorsport Community | August 2024

[PJTierney]

@PJTierney

Now that we’re at the end of the year, let’s see how well Turn 10 did and how much of their roadmap has been delivered so far.

Cars & Tracks

• Unlocking reward cars outside of Career (Challenge Hub)
• Permanent series/reward additions to Career (due “later this year”)
• Permanent new race-car specific Tours in Career (due “next year”)
• Sunset Peninsula
• Bathurst

Spectate Mode

• Spectate in Private Multiplayer

Drift Mode

• Drift Mode in Free Play
• Drift Mode in Private Multiplayer
• Drift Rivals
• Drift Mode in Featured Multiplayer
• Drift Meetup in Featured Multiplayer
• Drift HUD
• Formula Drift cars in Showroom

Creative Hub & Share Codes

• Overhauled Media tab, becoming Creative Hub (due “later in the year”)
• Share Codes (due “in a future update”)
• Updated Edit Layer tool in Livery Editor

Free Play Weather Options

• Expanded weather customisation in Free Play
• Expanded weather customisation in Private Multiplayer

Community Choice in Featured Multiplayer

• Community votes for upcoming Featured Multiplayer events

Audio Cues for Car Proximity Radar

• Audio cues added to proximity Radar
• Additional Radar backgrounds
• Adjustable Radar distances
• UDP support for Proximity Radar (due “in the long term”)
• Additional Proximity Radar HUD placements (due “in the long term”)

Ongoing Improvements to Forza Race Regulations

• Increased internal resource dedicated to FRR
• Increased data density from FRR incidents
• Further changes and improvements to FRR data model

Advanced Ghosting in Featured Multiplayer

• Advanced Ghosting in Featured Multiplayer

I do not feel that Turn 10 “lied” (ie: intended to deceive) with any of these undelivered items, they probably had high confidence in delivery at the time they wrote the article. Sometimes things take longer to create/deliver than originally anticipated, for a multitude of reasons.

It would have been nice to get more transparency later on in the year on if the team felt they were going to slip on a few dates, or even have some sort of footnote disclaimer to that effect on the blog itself, but maybe their comms team can take that as a learning for the next set of promises.

No changes to this from Update 16.